Australia appears confused about its place in the global world order - ABC News
No-one inside federal politics seems interested in discussing the large orange elephant in the room and how it is materially changing every other country's views of the world.
Witchcraft Lessons While I Waited for My Green Card - The Wild Hunt
Your body’s a temple; temples also crumble: There’s so much talk about how your body is sacred, your body is a temple, must respect your body… Well, temples also crumble. The walls crack, the lights die, the murals peel off, people leave all sorts of trash behind their visits, and so on. Sometimes, temples suffer: your body gets sick, and you cannot do much to attend to it. [...] And that’s okay. Sometimes, all you can do is keep the temple standing so you can rebuild it later. Today, it stands. Tomorrow, we repair.
Connecting to Regenerative Foodways in the Pacific Northwest
Content warning for industrial scale farming & food ethics, food guilt, meat as food, and the author's wrestlings with vegetarianism.
Opinion: A Modest Proposal for Banning Christian Athletes from Men’s Sports
It has been shown above that the intense and ongoing reaction to functionally 0% of athletes in women’s sports being transgender has led to multiple court cases and much furious emotion over protecting the sanctity of the game.
It has also been shown that open admission of one-sided and unfair divine aid by victorious athletes at the highest levels of men’s sports has gone unstudied and unpunished.
How can any athlete – no matter their level of talent, training, and experience – hope to compete with a rival who is being openly helped by an omniscient and omnipotent divinity?
There's a tiny section where LLMs are paraphrased (but still, why are you treating an unfeeling machine like a person you can speak to?)
The phrase "Performance-enhancing divinity" may be my new favourite thing I've read all day.
Supreme Court to Hear Home Worship Case; Decision Could Affect Covens and Other Minority Faiths - The Wild Hunt
The complaint alleges officials characterized his planned prayer group as an unpermitted synagogue under the city’s zoning ordinance, directed police to monitor his residence, encouraged neighbors to report activity at the home, and engaged in a broader pattern of harassment after he sought to host religious gatherings.
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“You don’t need a city permit to pray with your friends,” ADF wrote. “Every American has the right to peacefully practice their faith in their own home—and to seek relief from federal courts when government officials interfere.”
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